hello everyone and welcome back this is paul from techlink and apple has recently released
a new service designed to make more efficient the process of moving your photos and videos to
google's cloud platform so if for some reason you are looking for a quick and easy way to transfer
your icloud photos to google photos keep on watching as i will show you how to do that
also there are some important things to consider while using this service so make
sure to stick around till the end of this video so you don't miss out on them now to begin with
you need to make sure you have the following things available in order to use this service
you will need your apple id with that ufa enable and the google account to use google photos
also i need to make sure you have enough storage available on your google cloud so the transfer
is successful once you've got these you can proceed with the transfer so you need to open a
web browser and go to privacy.apple.com in here you will be asked to sign in so just use your
apple credentials you will then receive a notification on your apple devices to
allow the connection and you will get the code that you need to insert here
next you need to select this option right here transfer copy of your data so click on
request to transfer keep in mind that this service operates by request which means that you have to
ask apple to transfer your icloud media to google photos so once you do the request you
will need to wait till apple verifies that it was you who made the request and only then it
proceeds with the transfer also according to apple this process can take between three and
seven days to complete so don't worry if you don't see your media in the google photos straight away
you will see next how many pictures and videos will be copied from icloud photos and how much
storage they require you then need to choose where you would like to transfer your photos so click on
this drop down menu and select google photos you can now choose whether you want to transfer only
your photos your videos or both of them so select whichever you need and press continue on the next
page you need to confirm that your google account has the required storage available
and click continue a pop-up window will come up for you to sign into your google account
and select google photos as the location where you want your files to go once the transfer is
complete you should receive an email from apple to notify you and as i mentioned at
the beginning of this video there are a few things that you need to take into consideration
first of all if you make change changes to your icloud media during the transfer process
they might not be reflected in the transfer so for example if you add some photos or
videos during this time you might not get them once the transfer is complete
also you should check how your media is organized in the photo library
that's because some content like shared albums smart albums photo stream content live photos
and photos and videos stored in other folders or locations are not being transferred at all
another thing i wanted to point out is that the transfer doesn't remove or change the data you
store on icloud it just sends a copy of your media to google photos so if you want to delete
the photos and videos you have stored on icloud after the transfer is complete you will have to
do it manually and that's pretty much it if you have any doubts you can go back a few steps and
access this article here where you can find further details regarding the transfer hope this
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